Category: Reviews
Shaky Knees 2014: The Music Festival Atlanta’s Been Waiting For
[tps_header] If you live anywhere close to close to Atlanta, you should have been at Shaky Knees Music Fest this past weekend. In just two years, Shaky Knees has solidified its position towards the top of Atlanta’s music landscape. The lineup is incredible (you’ve got Modest Mouse, The Gaslight Anthem, Cage the Elephant, Blood Red Shoes, The…
Gunakadeit: “South”
Natasha Kozaily’s new pop project Gunakadeit (pronounced Goo-na’-ka-date) is named after a Tlingit legend about a sea monster that brought prosperity and good luck to a village in crisis. Natasha was raised by a Lebanese father and a native Islander mother on the small island of Grand Cayman in the Caribbean. She studied ethnomusicology in…
Aloud: ‘It’s Got To Be Now’
On Facebook, Aloud describes themselves as a “nationally touring four piece rock n’ roll band with lots of hooks, lots of harmonies, lots of guitars, and lots heart. Dig it.” Their passion for music really comes out in their lively vocals and upbeat sound. It’s Got to Be Now both enlivens and creates a carefree…
Lykke Li: ‘I Never Learn’
It’s finally here; Lykke Li’s third album, I Never Learn. Three years since her second album, Wounded Rhymes, and six years since her first, Youth Novels, Lykke Li has developed beautifully but has also remained true to the unique style that captured our ears from the beginning. I Never Learn is an amalgamation of emotions;…
The GOASTT: ‘Midnight Sun’
Sean Lennon borrows the mid-sixties’ tribe-y feel from his father and blends it with dynamic instrumental and electronic elements on The GOASTT’s new album, Midnight Sun, released April 29th via Chimera Music. The GOASTT, or The Ghost of a Sabre Tooth Tiger as it is called in long form, is the creative love child of…
SXSW 2014: Guitar Center Sessions with Phantogram and Snoop Dogg
It had finally arrived. My last night of South By Southwest. The lineup was as stellar as the venue. The stage was set up on top of the rooftop of the Starr Building in downtown Austin and loomed high above my head, an impressive structure that looked like it belonged on TV. And on TV…
Elephant: ‘Sky Swimming’
London natives Amelia Rivas and Christian Pinchbeck collaborate to create their debut full-length album, Sky Swimming, out April 29. On Elephant’s Facebook, they describe the album as “a conclusion that songwriting and documentation should only be accomplished by the turn of night, and should never leave comfort and safety of the bedroom.” This musical theory…
Odonis Odonis at World Famous, Athens, GA
On their tour’s sixth stop , musical trio Odonis Odonis of Toronto Canada made their way down to humble ol’ Athens, GA to grace us all …well, all 50 of us or so…with their very polite presence. Okay, I might be postulating here, but they did seem like a very nice bunch – and well dressed, I…
SXSW 2014: The Bright Light Social Hour at The Main II
11 p.m. rolled around, and the crowd was getting anxious at The Main II in downtown Austin. This city’s own The Bright Light Social Hour were set to take the stage for their official SX showcase, and they were running slightly late. Even with several other notable acts set to perform later that night, including up-and-coming indie…
Sledding With Tigers: ‘A Necessary Bummer’
“Not folk enough for folk and not punk enough for punk.” These are the words we’ve seen used to describe Sledding With Tigers, who just released a new album at a name-your-own-price rate on their website. Despite finding themselves in genre limbo, the band’s latest offering, A Necessary Bummer, manages to capture the honesty that…